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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the OBs I have encountered (and it's a fair few, multiple DCs born in 2 countries) generally do not follow an informed consent model of care. I have rarely felt as though I had a true say in my care and how to proceed, it's mostly OBs trying to coerce me into following hospital policy. Individuals in the medical profession have big egos and do not enjoy being challenged. I don't want to endanger my baby, but might have a higher risk tolerance than my OB. So I would be okay going to 42 weeks without being induced, but that was not what the OB wanted. I also wanted to decline GBS screening but again, not acceptable bc the OB wanted it. I could go on and on, but let's not pretend like women are in charge of their births here. [/quote]

The problem is that if you experience a bad outcome (heaven forbid) there’s a very good chance the doctor is getting sued for not adequately advising you of the risk no matter what your prebirth self thought about the safety of going to 42 weeks or skipping a test. That’s the world OBs are practicing in.[/quote]
a) they have malpractice insurance, and b) that's not an excuse to inflate the risk and coerce that patient into doing something she's not comfortable with. Going to 42 weeks of pregnancy is not a death sentence. Declining an induction/waiting for labor to start is usually not a death sentence (if it were then they certainly wouldn't sit there and let you labor on pitocin for 2 days, waiting for the pre-e to worsen). Declining a c-section is, in some cases, a death sentence - that's when they should pull out the big guns of AMA.[/quote]

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